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  • Pyle: Is Colorado’s oil and gas industry sitting at the table, or on the menu?

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    Tom Pyle

    There’s an old and unfortunate truth about Washington, D.C.: “If you don’t have a seat at the table, you’re probably on the menu.” For the past eight years, the Obama administration’s “keep-it-in-the-ground” policies have kept the oil and gas industry “on the menu” and stymied responsible energy development and threatened to make energy more expensive…

  • Methane rule issue shows divide in opinion polls

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    Mike McKibbin

    Oil and natural gas companies and their supporters continue to wage a war of words – and opinion polls – with backers of a Bureau of Land Management rule regulating emissions of methane from natural gas wells drilled on federal land, while a Colorado senator remains undecided on his stance on the rule. Earlier this…

  • Colorado leaders unite in defense of the recreational marijuana industry

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    Brian Heuberger

    With U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions hinting that the Trump administration might intensify the enforcement of federal marijuana laws, Colorado leaders from both sides of the aisle have come to the defense of the state’s legal marijuana industry in an uncommon show of solidarity in what many consider to be divisive political times of unmatched…

  • WOTUS order could take years to resolve

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    Mike McKibbin

    A controversial federal rule designed to provide clarity for protection of America’s water resources, and now under a presidential order for change or elimination, could cause further confusion and take the rest of President Donald Trump’s term in office to be resolved, according to two Colorado State University researchers and news reports. The order was…

  • Colorado industry group, AG not backing down to White House hint of legal marijuana crackdown

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    Sadie Gurman

    The Justice Department will step up enforcement of federal law against recreational marijuana, White House spokesman Sean Spicer said Feb. 23, offering the Trump administration’s strongest indication to date of a looming crackdown on the drug, even as a solid majority of Americans believe it should be legal. “I do believe you’ll see greater enforcement…

  • Rescinding BLM gas waste reduction rule before Senate

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    Mike McKibbin

    One of Colorado’s U.S. Senators is strongly opposed to a measure that would roll back an Obama administration rule to prevent the flaring and wasting of methane and natural gas developed on public and tribal lands, while the second is undecided. The rule was among several environmental regulations issued in the last days of the…

  • Gardner, GOP colleagues urge Trump to keep Cuban prison open

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    Mike McKibbin

    U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colorado, and 10 of his Republican colleagues, last week sent a letter to encourage President Donald Trump to assess the future operations and detention of terrorism-related detainees held at the Joint Task Force Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Guantanamo Bay (GTMO), Cuba. “Congress has continuously opposed and prohibited the closure of…

  • Weekes: Taxpayers footing millions in Colorado’s criminal alien sanctuary city policies

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    Jared Wright

    Mayors in Boulder, Denver and Aurora have lately made pronouncements in defense of their “sanctuary city” policies of non-cooperation with federal immigration law enforcement. They are evidently unaware that the sanctuary era was given a death sentence by the Obama administration a full six months before President Trump’s January 25 executive order. Last July 6,…

  • May: Defining violent extremism down

    May: Defining violent extremism down

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    Clifford D. May

    There are Iranian moderates; Rafsanjai was not among them Death, where is thy sting? For Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, it certainly didn’t come from the mainstream media. The 82-year-old former Iranian president died of a heart attack earlier this month. The New York Times called him an “influential voice against hard-liners” and “a main voice…

  • Colorado lawmakers dispute repeal of Affordable Care Act

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    Tom Ramstack

    The political dispute over repealing Obamacare is shaping up to be as fierce in Colorado as anywhere else. Republicans in the Colorado delegation to Congress have signaled their support of President Donald Trump’s pledge to repeal the health care system as soon as possible. But different opinions are coming from Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper and…

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